Unity

This piece is a fanfare for the concert band that creates an exhilarating opening and finish with an optional aleatoric section for the band being presented in the middle. This is supposed to represent the difficulty of beginning bands learning to come together with their individual parts to create a complete team song. Although it is scored for full band, there are only four woodwind parts, four brass parts and a bass part. The opening accompanying material is with a quick repetitive, easy-to-finger, eighth note obligato in the upper woodwinds. At the repeat of the melody, the band breaks into more parts creating more need to listen and work together. The optional free section is where you can experiment with sound as if the wheels come off, much like an early rehearsal would sound. You may also experiment with allowing the students to pick their own note, keeping the rhythm. As the melody returns, the audience will hear the difference of what it is like when the band all works together to create music. The piece is written with a beginning band in mind with the use of just the first six notes and extra percussion parts in case you have a large percussion section (the xylophone and the percussion three parts are optional).